436 – Upgrade At Your Peril
First up in the news: AlmaLinux restores some deprecated stuff, Nouveau dev joins the bigs, Linux runs cars, Microsoft sneaks MS-DOS 4.0 into their open source portfolio, Ubuntu 24.04 is out…. And you shouldn’t upgrade your system yet
In security and privacy: nope, nada
Then in our Wanderings: Joe preps for zombies, Bill migrates, Majid is starstruck, Moss is car swapping, Popey is job swapping
- 00:00:00 – Intro
- 00:01:17 – News
- 00:42:15 – Security And Privacy
- 00:42:47 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
- 01:28:40 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
- 01:29:20 – Wrap Up
- 01:31:26 – Special Thanks
- 01:32:12 – Outro
The News
AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Restores Support For Some Hardware Deprecated By RHEL
Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver
Linux can finally run your car’s safety systems and driver-assistance features
Microsoft adds MS-DOS 4.0 to their Open-Source Github page
Ubuntu 24.04 Official Flavours Available to Download
Why You Shouldn’t Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Yet
Contact Info:
- Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
- Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], music on YouTube and Bandcamp if you look for it.
- Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
- Majid – [email protected] @atypicaldr870on twitter, AtypicalDr on instagram and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
- Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon, Distrohoppers’ Digest and LinuxLUGCast streams. If you’d like to get in touch with me I can be reached by email at [email protected], Discord (eric_adams), Telegram (https://t.me/ericadams), Matrix (@esa1975:matrix.org), and Mastodon (https://fosstodon.org/@ericadams). Links in the show notes.
- Alan – popey.me
Special Thanks To:
- Bill Houser for our audio editing
- Archive.org for hosting our audio files
- Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
- Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
- Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
- The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
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